Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
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“[I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
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This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and… — Pumpsie Green Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
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